The rising consensus of anger in the wake of this massacre has caused some to observe that Fazlullah may be isolated. This may be partially true, especially as Pakistan Army’s Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan unfolds. But up in Kunar, he appears quite in control. While Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Pakistan’s interior minister, has said […]
PESHAWAR, Dec 30: Even though Chitral stands sixth among 25 districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and 47th out of 146 districts nationally, at least 37% of girls in the district are not going to school. To provide context to the ranks given by Alif Ailan District Education Rankings 2014 or the government, a closer look at
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In the wake of Peshawar school tragedy all the parliamentary parties decided on Dec 24 to set up special courts to be presided over by army officers for trying suspected terrorists. As the Supreme Court has declared in 1999 the setting up of military courts as unconstitutional and illegal, therefore, the political leadership has decided
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CHITRAL, Dec 28: The 7th century fort of Chinese king Bahman Kohistani in Muzhgole village of upper Chitral can be turned into a tourist resort if the archaeology department pays the much needed attention to it. Talking to this correspondent, Gulzada Khan, a retired schoolteacher of the area, said that the upper part of Chitral
Dr Hasan Askari Rizvi Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is the icon of Pakistan’s history. He is characterized as the charismatic leader who inspired a substantial majority of British-Indian Muslims and left a strong imprint on history by establishing the separate state of Pakistan. No history of the end of British rule in India is complete
